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Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview (2024)
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Historically the most popular dark matter candidates have been new elementary particles, such as Weakly Interacting Massive Particles and axions. However Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), black holes formed from overdensities in the early Universe, are... Read More about Primordial black holes as a dark matter candidate - a brief overview.

Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements (2023)
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Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may form in the early Universe, from the grav-itational collapse of large density perturbations, generated by large quantum fluctuations during inflation. Since PBHs form from rare over-densities, their abundance is sens... Read More about Primordial black holes and stochastic inflation beyond slow roll. Part I. Noise matrix elements.

Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes (2023)
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Dark matter in the form of compact objects with mass Mco ≳ 10 M⊙ can be constrained by its dynamical effects on wide binary stars. Motivated by the recent interest in primordial black hole dark matter, we revisit the theoretical modelling involved in... Read More about Modelling uncertainties in wide binary constraints on primordial black holes.

Effect of clustering on primordial black hole microlensing constraints (2022)
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Stellar microlensing observations tightly constrain compact object dark matter in the mass range (10-11-103)M ⊙. Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) form clusters, and it has been argued that these microlensing constraints are consequently weakened or evad... Read More about Effect of clustering on primordial black hole microlensing constraints.

Direct detection of dark matter - APPEC committee report (2022)
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This report provides an extensive review of the experimental programme of direct detection searches of particle dark matter. It focuses mostly on European efforts, both current and planned, but does it within a broader context of a worldwide activity... Read More about Direct detection of dark matter - APPEC committee report.

Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology (2022)
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These lecture notes aim to provide an introduction to dark matter from the perspective of astrophysics/cosmology. We start with a rapid overview of cosmology, including the evolution of the Universe, its thermal history and structure formation. Then... Read More about Dark matter in astrophysics/cosmology.

Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate (2020)
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Green, A. M., & Kavanagh, B. J. (2021). Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 48(4), Article 043001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/abc534

The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries has led to a surge in interest in Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate. We aim to provide a (relatively) concise overview of the status of... Read More about Primordial Black Holes as a dark matter candidate.

Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes (2020)
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James-Turner, C., Weil, D. P. B., Green, A. M., & Copeland, E. J. (2020). Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes. Physical Review D, 101(12), Article 123526. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.123526

A small fraction, f , of cosmic string loops can collapse to form Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). Constraints on the abundance of PBHs can therefore be used to constrain f. We update these calculations, taking into account the PBH extended mass functi... Read More about Constraints on the cosmic string loop collapse fraction from primordial black holes.

Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling (2020)
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Chamings, F. N., Avgoustidis, A., Copeland, E. J., Green, A. M., & Pourtsidou, A. (2020). Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling. Physical Review D, 101(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.101.043531

Models in which scalar field dark energy interacts with dark matter via a pure momentum coupling have previously been found to potentially ease the structure formation tension between early-and late-universe observations. In this article we explore t... Read More about Understanding the suppression of structure formation from dark matter-dark energy momentum coupling.

Early dark energy constraints on growing neutrino quintessence cosmologies (2019)
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Noble Chamings, F., Avgoustidis, A., Copeland, E. J., Green, A. M., & Li, B. (2019). Early dark energy constraints on growing neutrino quintessence cosmologies. Physical Review D, 100(4), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.100.043525

We investigate cosmological models in which dynamical dark energy consists of a scalar field whose present-day value is controlled by a coupling to the neutrino sector. The behavior of the scalar field depends on three functions: a kinetic function,... Read More about Early dark energy constraints on growing neutrino quintessence cosmologies.

Pitfalls of a power-law parametrization of the primordial power spectrum for primordial black hole formation (2018)
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Green, A. M. (2018). Pitfalls of a power-law parametrization of the primordial power spectrum for primordial black hole formation. Physical Review D, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.98.023529

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) can form in the radiation dominated early Universe from the collapse of large density perturbations produced by inflation. A power-law parameterisation of the primordial power spectrum is often used to extrapolate from c... Read More about Pitfalls of a power-law parametrization of the primordial power spectrum for primordial black hole formation.

Astrophysical uncertainties on stellar microlensing constraints on multi-solar mass primordial black hole dark matter (2017)
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Green, A. M. (2017). Astrophysical uncertainties on stellar microlensing constraints on multi-solar mass primordial black hole dark matter. Physical Review D, 96, Article 043020. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.96.043020

There has recently been interest in multi-Solar mass Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter (DM) candidate. There are various microlensing, dynamical and accretion constraints on the abundance of PBHs in this mass range. Taken at face value t... Read More about Astrophysical uncertainties on stellar microlensing constraints on multi-solar mass primordial black hole dark matter.

Astrophysical uncertainties on the local dark matter distribution and direct detection experiments (2017)
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Green, A. M. (2017). Astrophysical uncertainties on the local dark matter distribution and direct detection experiments. Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics, 44(8), https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6471/aa7819

The differential event rate in weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) direct detection experiments depends on the local dark matter density and velocity distribution. Accurate modelling of the local dark matter distribution is therefore required... Read More about Astrophysical uncertainties on the local dark matter distribution and direct detection experiments.

Microlensing and dynamical constraints on primordial black hole dark matter with an extended mass function (2016)
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Green, A. M. (in press). Microlensing and dynamical constraints on primordial black hole dark matter with an extended mass function. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 94, Article 063530. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.063530

The recent discovery of gravitational waves from mergers of ∼10 M⊙ black hole binaries has stimulated interested in primordial black hole (PBH) dark matter in this mass range. Microlensing and dynamical constraints exclude all of the dark matter in c... Read More about Microlensing and dynamical constraints on primordial black hole dark matter with an extended mass function.

How to calculate dark matter direct detection exclusion limits that are consistent with gamma rays from annihilation in the Milky Way halo (2016)
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Cerdeno, D. G., Fornasa, M., Green, A. M., & Peiro, M. (2016). How to calculate dark matter direct detection exclusion limits that are consistent with gamma rays from annihilation in the Milky Way halo. Physical Review D, 94, Article 043516. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.94.043516

When comparing constraints on the weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) properties from direct and indirect detection experiments it is crucial that the assumptions made about the dark matter (DM) distribution are realistic and consistent. For i... Read More about How to calculate dark matter direct detection exclusion limits that are consistent with gamma rays from annihilation in the Milky Way halo.

A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection (2016)
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Mayet, F., Green, A. M., Battat, J., Billard, J., Bozorgnia, N., Gelmini, G., …Vahsen, S. (2016). A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection. Physics Reports, 627, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physrep.2016.02.007

Cosmological observations indicate that most of the matter in the Universe is Dark Matter. Dark Matter in the form of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) can be detected directly, via its elastic scattering off target nuclei. Most current di... Read More about A review of the discovery reach of directional Dark Matter detection.

WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data (2015)
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Kavanagh, B. J., Fornasa, M., & Green, A. M. (2015). WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 91, Article 103533

With positive signals from multiple direct detection experiments it will, in principle, be possi- ble to measure the mass and cross sections of weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Recent work has shown that, with a polynomial para... Read More about WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data.

Probing WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data (2015)
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With positive signals from multiple direct detection experiments, it will, in principle, be possible to measure the mass and cross sections of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter. Recent work has shown that, with a polynomial param... Read More about Probing WIMP particle physics and astrophysics with direct detection and neutrino telescope data.

WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments (2014)
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Peter, A. H., Glusevic, V., Green, A. M., Kavanagh, B. J., & Lee, S. L. (2014). WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments. Physics of the Dark Universe, 5-6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dark.2014.10.006

The search for weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter is multi-pronged. Ulti- mately, the WIMP-dark-matter picture will only be confirmed if different classes of experiments see consistent signals and infer the same WIMP properties. I... Read More about WIMP physics with ensembles of direct-detection experiments.

Self-consistent phase-space distribution function for the anisotropic dark matter halo of the Milky Way (2014)
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Fornasa, M., & Green, A. M. (2014). Self-consistent phase-space distribution function for the anisotropic dark matter halo of the Milky Way. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 89(6), Article 063531. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.89.063531

Dark Matter (DM) direct detection experiments usually assume the simplest possible ‘Standard Halo Model’ for the Milky Way (MW) halo in which the velocity distribution is Maxwellian. This model assumes that the MW halo is an isotropic, isothermal sph... Read More about Self-consistent phase-space distribution function for the anisotropic dark matter halo of the Milky Way.